Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Early Indications April 2019: Review essay: Deep Medicine by Eric Topol

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Note: I neglected last month to announce that MIT Press has published my book on 3D printing,  a...
Monday, March 25, 2019

Early Indications March 2019: Facebook Act 2?

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On March 7 Facebook founder, CEO, and majority shareholder (for voting purposes) Mark Zuckerberg announced “ A Privacy-Focused Vision for...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Early Indications January 2019: The organizational context for machine learning

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Much attention is paid to the necessity for innovation, typically at the level of a technology: a molecule, a machine, a circuit. While t...
Saturday, December 29, 2018

Early Indications December 2018: 5 Weak Signals

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2018 was a challenging year for much of the tech world, and not only because of the depressed stock market. A number of high-profile failur...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Early Indications October 2018: More

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This month’s news cycle featured news that a single ticket matched the numbers necessary to win a $1.5 billion prize. South Carolina, whe...
Sunday, September 30, 2018

Early Indications September 2018: Why can’t your organization innovate like DARPA?

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Following up on last month’s newsletter, which asked who was going to generate the big-scale innovations required for a growing ...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

Early Indications August 2018: The Next Big Innovation?

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Few books have stuck with me the way Geoffrey West’s Scale (reviewed here last summer) did. I don’t fully buy the book’s argument for the a...